Posted on 09/18/2021 2:36:53 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Mozart's Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major K448 is known for its effects on cognition and other brain activity, but researchers are still seeking to understand why.
In this study, scientists played the piece for patients equipped with brain implant sensors to monitor the occurrence of IEDs - brief but harmful brain events suffered by epileptics between seizures.
They found IEDs decreased after 30 seconds of listening, with significant effects in parts of the brain associated with emotion.
When they compared the response to the structure of the work, they found the effects increased during transitions between longer musical phrases - ones that lasted 10 seconds or more.
Quon says the findings suggest that longer phrases may create a sense of anticipation - and then answer it in an unexpected way "creating a positive emotional response".
The so-called 'Mozart effect' has been the subject of research since scientists in 1993 claimed people who had listened to K448 for 10 minutes showed improved spatial reasoning skills.
Subsequent research has has tested K448's effects on various brain functions and disorders, including epilepsy.
But the authors said this is the first to break down observations based on the song's structure, which they described as "organized by contrasting melodic themes, each with its own underlying harmony".
As with previous studies, patients showed no change in brain activity when exposed to other auditory stimuli or pieces of music that were not K448 - even those from their preferred musical genres.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
There’s a relationship between great art and the divine.
A new friend just told me he became born again by going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and looking at the religious paintings.
Like Beetoven when he wrote and played many pieces whwn he was deaf.
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Bach just makes you sit there with your mouth open. His IQ must have been off the charts.
“The so-called ‘Mozart effect’ has been the subject of research since scientists in 1993 claimed people who had listened to K448 for 10 minutes showed improved spatial reasoning skills.”
I’ll have to try this the next time I dive into Bowditch’s Practical Navigator.
Hitler said Wagner was the FOUNTAINHEAD of Nazism.
Cosima Liszt, Wagner’s wife, lived into the time of Hitler and was a big Hitler supporter.
In addition to his essay, The Jews in Music [attacking Jewish composers Meyerbeer and Mendelssohn], Wagner enthused over the death of 100’s of Jews in a Ukraine synogogue fire.
Wagner’s Heroism and Christianity spells out the Nazi program for elimination of the Jews half a century before Hitler.
Wagner’s operas Die Meistersinger and Parsifal are replete with anti-Semitism.
It’s a good idea not to somment on sujects you are ignorant of.
Seriously? I am no musical scholar, I can't even play a musical instrument, but I can tell Mozart was a creative genius. I can listen to his work al day long and not get tired of it.
Thanks for sharing. Please update us if you will. I have an employee with Epilepsy and I’m going to send her the article. God bless.
Thank you. I will!
Have you tried any CBD oil? I started with the stuff sold locally and got some relief, but then I tried Tommy Chong’s CBD oil and got noticeable help in other areas, slowing/reversing effects of aging esp. with my ankles and knees.
Tommy had a similar exp. to Flynn with a Califonia DA who wanted to prosecute so bad even though no laws were broken, the DA threatened to go after his son if Tommy didn’t relent. Good story which led to him meeting Dr. Gupta and marketing the doctors formula using Tommy’s celebrity status.
I have not tried CBD oil, but have been curious about it.
Are you thinking it might help me for seizure control, or my sensitivity to music? (Or both)?
Sorry wrong link in my prior post.
https://healthylivinglifefacts.com/cbd-trial-miracle-drop/
Also this site has lots of advertising so if you copy it and then open www.outline.com you can place any website/article in there and get content only.
Here’s the Tommy Chong video - just over 20 min - that sold me on his CBD oil. Of course I’d already known about Dr. Sanjay Gupta and his CBD research too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcT8ECX_zaw
Also likely I would have to battle prostate and/or colorectal cancer as Tommy did, but I happened on to a chiropractor 15 years ago. Mostly straightened an ‘S’ turn in my lower spine - after that things have been much more normal on my morning ‘throne’ time. See my FR homepage.
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